Loathly Ladies' Lessons: Negotiating Structures of Gender in "The Tale of Florent," "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle."

Author / Editor
Znojemská, Helena.

Title
Loathly Ladies' Lessons: Negotiating Structures of Gender in "The Tale of Florent," "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle."

Published
Acta Universitatis Caroliniae: Philologica 2 (2022): 21-37.

Description
Examines female desire and sovereignty in WBT and its analogues, arguing that "the texts reveal the tensions among the various ideologies of women's (and men's) positions which the[ir] culture sustains," and suggests that they, paradoxically, "deflect" and affirm the "centrality of gender as a conceptual tool" in treating "problems of power." Includes an abstract in Czech and in English.

Chaucer Subjects
SAC 47:143